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Old 07-13-2011, 11:48 AM   #49
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Originally Posted by Amneris View Post
Any Americans doing that are just as ignorant and clueless as this couple, I'll agree with that. Maybe even worse because they're actually dressing up as an oppressed people. At least this wedding wasn't done in blackface.
I don't know about that. I mean, there's probably no point in quantifying racism--neither one is acceptable--but I think this wedding takes the cake. As someone in the original comments pointed out, they hired real black people to participate in their imperialist fantasy and basically serve as historical props (as the photos make clear). Someone else pointed out that black people were also visible in the photos hung up on the walls depicting historical scenes of colonialist oppression, but I wasn't able to make them out.
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